human capital accumulation, non-separable preferences of females and child care costs on females life-cycle fertility and …, labor force participation and fertility decisions is estimated. In that model, experience on the job raises future wages …, time spent nurturing children affects utility, while time spent off the job in the past directly affects current utility …

fertility and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …

A large number of pairs of countries exhibit a dynamic pattern in which: (i) Fertility in both countries declines … across time; (ii) Initially one country has higher fertility and lower per-capita income compared to the other; (iii) In time …, as per-capita income converges, fertility rates in the poorer country become lower than in the richer one. This paper …

After the fall in fertility during the Demographic Transition, many developed countries experienced a baby bust …, followed by the Baby Boom and subsequently a return to low fertility. Received wisdom from the Demography literature links … these large fluctuations in fertility to the series of Economics 'shocks' that occurred with similar timing -- the Great …

(2002). In the Barro and Becker model parents have children because they perceive their children's lives as a continuation … of their own. In the Boldrin and Jones' framework parents procreate because the children care about their old parents …We examine the effects of changes of government provided old age pensions on fertility choices in the context of two …

developed with three ingredients: endogenous fertility, investment in land, and migration. The secular decline in fertility is … driven by the rise in real wages. The relative abundance of land in the West promotes higher fertility. The model is … simulated to see whether it can match the time-series decomposition of population growth between migration and fertility. It can …

been a marked trend towards lower fertility and higher female labor force participation. However, change did not occur in a … uniform fashion: during the post-war Baby Boom, fertility rates increased substantially, until the long-term downward trend … war. We argue that this crowded out younger women from the labor market, who chose to have more children instead …

This paper incorporates fertility and altruism into the ``value of life'' framework. Two dimensions of fertility and … determining welfare in a context where individuals choose the number of children they have. Second, if altruism motivates … fertility, life expectancy gains have a twofold effect: they directly increase utility via increased survival probabilities, and …

-1990. Second, we study the consequences of parental leave policies on fertility decisions and gender differences in employment and …

, fertility, divorce, child support transfers, and children's quality are endogenously determined. Divorce enables parents to …Approximately four out of ten American children experience the divorce of their parents. This raises concern because … offspring of married parents. The belief that a two-parent family is the ideal environment for raising children is reflected in …